Nader Tehrani, newly appointed head of the Department of Architecture (effective this July), has recently won two highly competitive architectural competitions with his partner in Office dA, Monica Ponce de Leon.
The resulting commissions, to design new campus facilities for schools of architecture, are central features in a new exhibit in SA+P’s Wolk Gallery, Office dA: Building Pedagogies, on display through April 11.
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This illustration shows a lead sulfide quantum dot array. Each quantum dot (the colored clusters) is 'passivated' by molecules that bind to its surface. Dots that are made up of unequal amounts of lead and sulfur tend to cause electrons (shown in red) to become highly localized, which can substantially lower the electrical transport of the device.Image: Donghun Kim and Jeffrey C. Grossman
Balance is key to making quantum-dot solar cells work
MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to performance.
